US VICE-President Milke Pence pressed South Korea to take a harder line with the North today before tomorrow’s opening of the Winter Olympic Games “of peace.”

With North and South Korea fielding a joint women’s ice hockey team and hundreds of North Korean musicians and martial artists set to perform, the Pyeongchang games have become a symbol of peace.

But hawkish Mr Pence warned South Korean President Moon Jae In not to allow Pyongyang to use the games for “propaganda,” repeating bellicose rhetoric he had spouted in Japan the day before.